"break the news" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks the news",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking the news",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke the news",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken the news",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> the news"
      },
      "expansion": "break the news (third-person singular simple present breaks the news, present participle breaking the news, simple past broke the news, past participle broken the news)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I didn't know how to break the news to her that her best friend had been in a car accident.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person."
      ],
      "id": "en-break_the_news-en-verb-dqb2fE0A",
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": ":to"
          },
          "expansion": "[with to]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "to"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person. [with to]"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "break it"
        },
        {
          "word": "break it to"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
          "word": "tudtára ad"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
          "word": "elmond"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
          "word": "közöl"
        },
        {
          "alt": "неприятные",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
          "word": "сообщить новости"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break the news"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks the news",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking the news",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke the news",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken the news",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> the news"
      },
      "expansion": "break the news (third-person singular simple present breaks the news, present participle breaking the news, simple past broke the news, past participle broken the news)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I didn't know how to break the news to her that her best friend had been in a car accident.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person."
      ],
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": ":to"
          },
          "expansion": "[with to]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "to"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person. [with to]"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "break it"
    },
    {
      "word": "break it to"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
      "word": "tudtára ad"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
      "word": "elmond"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
      "word": "közöl"
    },
    {
      "alt": "неприятные",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "to inform someone of something first, usually used when it will be difficult to tell the person",
      "word": "сообщить новости"
    }
  ],
  "word": "break the news"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": soobščitʹ (neprijatnyje) novosti vs. неприятные",
  "path": [
    "break the news"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "break the news",
  "trace": ""
}